Eclipse 4.2 RC4 crashes on Ubuntu 10.10 (amd64)https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/363879/888343/#msg_888343
When I tried to use M7, I had this error, but given there were many tests failing for that release I thought it was something transient.

However, having downloaded today the eclipse-SDK-4.2RC4-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz package, it seems this is something that's here to stay: